ENR Top 500 Design Firms (ENR 4/21, 2008, p. 54)
Because of a misplaced decimal point on its online survey, Dallas-based Aguirre Corp. was inadvertently ranked No. 136 on the ENR Top 500 Design Firms list (ENR
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Engineering Summer Camp for Minority Kids Offers Them a Valuable Indoor Experience
Despite the draw of a new baseball team and other summertime pursuits in Washington, D.C., hundreds of mostly African-American elementary and middle school kids there will spend
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Ever-Rising Demand for Electricty Propelling Strong Power Market
Clients are asking for cleaner, more efficient plants
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Exhibit Hall's Natural Ventilation Design Not a Quick Study
T o create the world's most voluminous, naturally ventilated museum space for the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco office of project consulting engineer Arup commissioned
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FLORIDA
Under a contract awarded by Kraft Construction, Tri-City Electrical Contractors Inc. has begun work on $2.7-million of electrical work at the new 89,394-sq-ft Immokalee Career Center in
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Federal Funding Debate on Horizon
The outcome of the November elections remains anyone's guess, but a bigger uncertainty for the transportation industry looms in 2009 when Congress is expected to begin work
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Fluid Form
A Pavilion at Spain's Expo Zaragoza Uses Water for Walls
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Framing Clamp: No Welds
The Framing Clamp System is designed for framing roof openings and supporting loads above or below roof decks. With no required welds or special equipment, the system
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Green Building Goes Mainstream As Manufacturers Seek To Cut Costs
High energy prices lead clients to seek energy-efficient solutions
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Is the Boom on Its Last Legs?
Despite the unease caused by the meltdown of the housing market in 2007, ENR's Top 500 Design Firms had a banner year. As a group, the Top
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Israel Begins the Switch From Coal to Natural Gas
Israel is soliciting technical and financial consultants for what will be one of the largest infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the country. The National Infrastructure Ministry and
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Italy Moves Toward Program To Build New Reactors
By vowing to resume a reactor construction program within five years, Italy's government has reinforced an emerging trend in favor of nuclear power. Half a century after
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MAINE
Tidewater Architects has been selected by Manchester Athletic Club to provide design services for the new Scarborough Athletic Club at 125 Running Hill Rd. in Scarborough. The
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MICHIGAN
The Michigan Dept. of Transportation selected Parsons Brinckerhoff to provide construction engineering services for the reconstruction of Interstate 94 in St. Clair County. The project, which runs
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MIXING DRUM CONTROL UNIT: SIMPLE INTERFACE
The Litronic EMC electronic mixing control is designed to work with the entire line of Liebherr truck mixers. The unit has an oversized control lever (above left)
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Materials Cost Index
A 4% increase in structural steel prices overpowered weaker cement and lumber prices, pushing the MCI up 2.5%.
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Midwest Staggers Back From the Flood
Engineering improvements since last major pounding stand tall, but damage is still immense
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Museum Roof Construction Has Ups and Downs, Ins and Outs
In a project chock-full of tricky terrain, the contoured roof profile still stands out as the most convoluted, with the warped skylight over the piazza a close
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NEW JERSEY 7/1
William Paterson University, Office of Capital Planning, 300 Pompton Rd., Building 15, Wayne 07470, addition and renovation of Science Building on WPU campus in Wayne. The estimated
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NEW YORK
Skanska was awarded a contract valued at $554 million by the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection to construct the new Catskill and Delaware Water Treatment
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National Thirst for Petroleum Drives Designers To Boost Capacity
Designers challenged to work in tougher locations, new markets
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Need for Upgrades and Remediation Is Keeping Everyone Busy
Clients ask design firms to take a programmatic approach
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Ohio Awards Contracts To Repair Bridge Pier Rammed by a Truck
The Ohio Dept. of Transportation has awarded four emergency contracts worth a total of $833,000 for repairs to an Interstate 74 bridge that was struck on May
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Owners and Contractors Push To Work Through Uncertainties
With uncertainties growing in cost and availability of key construction components such as contracting capacity, labor and materials, executives of leading industry owners and contractors report big
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PENNSYLVANIA
The Pittsburgh City Planning Commission has approved the project-development plan for a new multipurpose arena that will serve as the future home of the Pittsburgh Penguins. HOK
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PENNSYLVANIA
Alvin H. Butz Inc. is the construction manager selected by the partnership of Moravian College and Bethlehem Area Moravians Inc. for a $25-million project that will transform
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Public Works Remains Pillar of Growth
Public works continues to be one of the strongest pillars of construction growth. On a seasonally adjusted annual basis, the public market slipped 0.3% in April, after
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Quantifying a Hot Trend
The sustainable-design market is growing by leaps and bounds. However, for all the progress that is being made in that field there also seems to be as
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San Francisco Museum's Green Redo Keeps Team on Slippery Slopes
Planted roof's hilly lid complicates giant boxful of innovation
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Slowing Funding Darkens Prospects For Strong Transportation Market
Sector is strong, but potential funding problems loom
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Solution or Pipe Dream?
The promise of integrated gasification/combined-cycle (IGCC) technology is that it will enable the capture and sequestration of most of the carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by
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Sourcebook Contents
Firms brace for economic downturn.
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Staubach Real Estate Firm Bought
The Staubach Co., the Dallas real estate services firm founded by Roger Staubach, former Dallas Cowboys football team quarterback, is to be acquired by global real estate
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Steel Price Increases Back Into Crisis Mode
Asurge in scrap metal prices and a lack of imports, due to the weak dollar, has pushed structural steel and reinforcing bar prices to record levels (ENR
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TEXAS
ZOM Inc. selected Cadence McShane Corp. to build the Le Maison on Revere, a new 423-unit, 447,764-sq-ft luxury apartment complex at Revere and Cameron Sts. in Houston.
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Team Went to Extremes To Plant Steep Hills of Living Roof
Paul Kephart describes himself as an ecologist, designer, artist and horticulturalist. With the 2.5-acre planted roof and its seven hills capping the new California Academy of Sciences
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Telecommunications Sector Buoyed By Strong Demand for Data Centers
But consolidation talks among wireless firms puts work on hold
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The Ground Is Prepared for the Growth of Green
Like an acorn that grows into a mighty oak, sustainable design is putting down roots in the construction industry and ultimately will be a powerful force for
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The Top 100 Green Design Firms
No Longer a Fad, Green Hits Mainstream
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The Top 500 Design Firms
Watching for Signs of a Market Slowdown
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The Top Green Design Firms
The market for sustainable design has passed the tipping point and is rapidly becoming mainstream. ENR's first Top Green Design Firms is an attempt to bypass the
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Uncertain Economy Pushes Design Firms To Diversify Their Portfolios
Firms find shifting resources and locations keeps them strong
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WHEEL LOADER: MANEUVERABLE
The DL450 is a 25.5-tonne wheel loader designed to handle a wide variety of jobs, and is well suited for moving sand and gravel. The loader is
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Worker-Verification Plan Has Wide Scope
As its term nears an end, the Bush administration is pushing to require federal contractors, including construction firms, to use an electronic system to prove their workers
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ARCADIS
Dick Kammann has joined ARCADIS, a Highlands Ranch, Colo.-based engineering firm, as client development manager for mid-Atlantic operations, in Columbia, Md. He was vice president and director
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Alaska Shakes the Dust Off Discarded Susitna Project
Alaskans are not complaining about the price of oil. So much oil money is flowing to Alaska's government that legislators are looking for long-term investments. One megaproject
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Aviation Industry Meets To Look For Solutions to the Fuel Crisis
The American Association of Airport Executives and other airport groups are sponsoring a one-day emergency summit on July 10 in Washington, D.C., to discuss the soaring price
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Barriers and Gates Take Shape to Protect Venice From the Sea
But funding shortfalls may delay completion by two years or more
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Building Cost Index
Higher steel prices accounted for all of this month's increase in the BCI as annual inflation rose from 2.8% to 3.8%.
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Bush Orders Contractors To Track Immigration Status of Workers
President Bush issued an executive order on June 6 directing federal contractors to use an electronic system to verify that all newly hired workers and all employees,
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CALIFORNIA
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has been awarded a contract by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Board of Directors, to provide design services and Thornton Tomasetti was selected
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CH2M Hill Cos.
CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has named Jacqueline Rast president and group CEO for its consulting, engineering, procurement and construction Center of Excellence. She had been senior vice
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Chicago 2016 Games Bid May Hinge on Infrastructure Health
Aroar went up in Chicago following a June 4 announcement that the city had jumped over the next-to-last hurdle for consideration to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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China Battles 'Quake Lakes"
Chinese engineers and military explosive experts are teaming up to solve a complex problem caused by a huge "quake lake" formed by a landslide from the recent
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Cleanup Hitter
Preston Takes Over Top Spot at Troubled HUD
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Climate: Senate Cap-and-Trade Bill Shelved for 2008
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says he does not plan to bring back a climate-change bill this year after its sponsors failed to block a Republican-led
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Construction Cost Index
A 0.1% increase in labor costs boosted the spike in material prices as inflation measured by the CCI rose to 3.1%.
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Contractors Stake Out Needs To Owners and Engineers
Bridge designers and engineers face increasing pressure to build and rehabilitate structures faster and more durably than ever. The 25th annual International Bridge Conference, held June 2-4
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Corps Is Drafting Revised Project 'Yardstick'
The Army Corps of Engineers is moving quickly to rewrite the rulebook on how to plan, evaluate and carry out water projects around the country. In last
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Crane Accident Spurs Labor Walkout Along Vegas Strip
Safety enforcement is becoming a burning issue in Las Vegas, where angry building trades at the CityCenter project walked off the job on June 2 in protest
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Crane Anxiety Towers From Coast to Coast
Widening probe into New York City crane collapse looks at corruption influence in public safety
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Day & Zimmermann
Day & Zimmermann has named Ted Daniels president of its Mason & Hanger unit, an architect-engineer-constructor based in Lexington, Ky. He comes to Day & Zimmermann from
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Demand Crowns Diesel, Not Gasoline, Cost King
Diesel prices rise nearly $1 more than gas
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Ellerbe Becket
Ellerbe Becket has named Adrian Hagerty managing principal of the firm's Washington, D.C., office. He had been principal and is a senior project manager for its work
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Engineers' Leadership Foundation
James K. "Jim" Johnston was elected president of the Engineers' Leadership Foundation, a not-for-profit group based in Silver Spring, Md., that promotes the concept of engineers becoming
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FLORIDA
A contract to provide design-build services to widen Interstate 95 from Palm Bay Rd. to Fiske Blvd. was awarded to the team of Community Asphalt Corp. and
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FLORIDA 6/24
(prequalified contractors)--Jacksonville Electric Authority, Bid Section Coordinator, 21 W. Church St., Suite 103, Jacksonville 32202, Southeast Generating Station on Philips Highway in Jacksonville. With cost estimated at
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Friends, Peers Defend Crane Owner's Maintenance Practices
The crane world knows a lot about James F. Lomma, the 61-year-old owner of New York Crane & Equipment Corp.
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H. Wilson Sundt
H. Wilson Sundt, former president and chairman of Sundt Construction Inc., Tempe, Ariz., died on May 12 after a long illness with cancer. He was 75.
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Housing Recession Saps Industry Growth
For the fifth consecutive month, construction industry growth slowed, as measured by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce's seasonally adjusted annual numbers (see chart). In April, this measurement
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IAP Worldwide Services Inc.
IAP Worldwide Services Inc., a contractor based in Cape Canaveral, Fla., has elected Steven F. Gaffney chairman and appointed Dale W. Thornton vice president of corporate business
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Inflation Making Big Push in 2008
Housing Recession Has No Impact on Major Commodity Prices
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Inflation's One-Two Punch
Inflation is a relentless boxer and it is throwing its hardest punches when the industry is already reeling from a depression in the housing market. Record high
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Inventor's Fuel-Saving Mud Flaps Make Splash With Truckers
For fleet managers, coping with today's diesel-fuel crisis often requires creative thinking--right down to the lowly mud flap. The drive for fuel efficiency drove Barry Andersen of
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John W. Keys III
John W. Keys III, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, died May 30 when a small plane he was piloting crashed in Canyonlands National Park
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Jorg O. Osterberg
Jorg O. Osterberg, a renowned geotechnical engineer, inventor and university professor for nearly 70 years, died on June 1 in Denver. He was 93. His patented Osterberg
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